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Updated: May 13, 2025
'Is that you, Andreevich? asked the old man. 'Yes, friend, we've gone astray, said Vasili Andreevich. 'We wanted to get to Goryachkin but found ourselves here. We went a second time but lost our way again. 'Just see how you have gone astray! said the old man. 'Petrushka, go and open the gate! he added, turning to the lad in the red shirt.
'Why, this must be the Goryachkin forest! said Vasili Andreevich, pointing to something dark that appeared amid the snow in front of them. 'We'll see what forest it is when we get there, said Nikita. He saw that beside the black thing they had noticed, dry, oblong willow-leaves were fluttering, and so he knew it was not a forest but a settlement, but he did not wish to say so.
Where are you off to? said Isay, enveloping Nikita in the odour of the vodka he had drunk. 'We were going to Goryachkin. 'And look where you've got to! You should have gone through Molchanovka. 'Should have, but didn't manage it, said Vasili Andreevich, holding in the horse.
It really was Grishkino, which meant that they had gone too far to the left and had travelled some six miles, not quite in the direction they aimed at, but towards their destination for all that. From Grishkino to Goryachkin was about another four miles. In the middle of the village they almost ran into a tall man walking down the middle of the street.
The purchase of the Goryachkin grove was a matter of immense importance to him. By that one deal he hoped to make perhaps ten thousand rubles. He began mentally to reckon the value of the wood he had inspected in autumn, and on five acres of which he had counted all the trees. 'The oaks will go for sledge-runners.
Vasili Andreevich might perhaps have got it down to his own price, for the woods were in his district and he had a long-standing agreement with the other village dealers that no one should run up the price in another's district, but he had now learnt that some timber-dealers from town meant to bid for the Goryachkin grove, and he resolved to go at once and get the matter settled.
The thought that he might himself be a millionaire like Mironov, who began with nothing, so excited Vasili Andreevich that he felt the need of talking to somebody. But there was no one to talk to.... If only he could have reached Goryachkin he would have talked to the landlord and shown him a thing or two. 'Just see how it blows!
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